Inspectable student models focus on the idea of letting students and teachers interact with the representation of the student that the system maintains. Both humans and the system can benefit from this interaction. By externalizing the student model and making it an object for inspection, several representational and interaction issues arise. This paper presents ViSMod (Visualization of Bayesia...

Abstract Introduction: The problem of student indiscipline and the proper teacher-student interaction are issues that all teachers, including teachers in special schools, deal with them. The Purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teacher communication skills training on student indiscipline and teacherstudents interaction. Method: A quasi experimental design was empl...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors that influence teachers' perceptions of and responses to chronic pain in students. METHODS Two-hundred and sixty classroom teachers responded to a vignette describing a student with limb pain. The 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design included conditions that varied by (a) the presence or absence of documented organic evidence for the pain, (b) cooperative vs. confrontationa...

In the article we compare the approaches of 3 in-service teachers and 3 student teachers when they tried to solve a verbal arithmetic problem in the clas.sroom. Each interaction was .studied using a System of Analysis that takes into account the cognitive proves.ses involved in the solution of a mathematic problem and describes the interaction at different levels showing what is done and to wha...

This research aims to determine the incidence of the percentage of time that Latin American teachers of Primary Education allocated to different no teaching related tasks on the academic achievement of students in Mathematics and Language. We have conducted a study with 256 teachers from 9 countries in Latin America and 5,610 students. The information was collected from the teachers’ distributi...

abstract introduction: the evaluation of teachers’ performance that the students have been part of it, if done right and be accepted by board of science, can be effective in improving the quality of their educational activities. study of causes which result in low attention ratio faculty student evaluation results can help to overcome existing shortcomings and prepare requirements for proper op...

The student teaching experience serves as a culmination of the teacher education process. It is a time for individuals preparing for a career in education to apply the theories and methods that they have studied during their teacher preparation program. The student teaching center and the supervising (cooperating) teacher are the most important ingredients in the student teaching experience. Th...

Many studies have examined the importance of teacher–student relationships for the development of children. Much less is known, however, about how these relationships impact the professional and personal lives of teachers. This review considers the importance of teacher–student relationships for the wellbeing of teachers starting from the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping of Lazarus (199...

Substantial empirical data indicates that elementary school teachers are disturbed by student behavior problems in a classroom. A study was conducted in order to determine which behaviors teachers report to be most disturbing and whether there are any teachers gender differences in an all-male Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva elementary school classroom. The participants consisted of 149 elementary scho...

ii ABSTRACT Isolating the effect of a given teacher on student achievement (value-added modeling) is complicated when the student is taught the same subject by more than one teacher. We consider three methods, which we call the Partial Credit Method, Teacher Team Method, and Full Roster Method, for estimating teacher effects in the presence of co-teaching. The Partial Credit Method apportions r...